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Faderman, Lillian, 27

"False differentiation," 109

Family, xii , xiii , 192 n.1;

in close networks, 76 -77, 78 -79, 90 -91, 101 , 118 , 172 , 203 -4nn.26,37;

and economic exchanges, 66 -67;

friendship serving women in, 165 (see also Marriage work);

friendships subordinate to, 85 -86, 91 , 93 -96, 100 , 101 , 111 -21, 153 , 161;

and individualism, 1 -2, 4 -13, 111 -12;

and individuation, 97 , 110 , 111 -12;

private, 19 -22;

sentimental, 19 -22, 24;

sociology of, xiii -xiv, 1 -5, 30 , 33 , 133;

voluntary organizations and, 24 , 200 n.91. See also Family status of interviewees; Marriage; Parenting

Family status of interviewees, xvii -xviii, xxi , 174

"Family time," 91 , 112 -21

Faragher, John, 18

Farm women, 8

Fathers, xvii , 34 , 39 -40, 50 -51

Feeling: in friendship. 35 . See also Emotional expression; Empathy

Feminism, xiv -xv, 12 , 164 n, 170;

"domestic," 12;

and male public sociability, 13;

and marriage, xiv -xv, 141 -42, 157 -58;

and romantic friendship, x -vii, 31 , 167

Feminization, of religion, 26

Finances: interviews about, 172;

talk about, 69 -70. See also Economic support; Income level

Fischer, Claude: and close networks, 57 , 77;

on community, 158 , 159;

and coworkers' friendships, 82;

and gender differences in confidences, 143;

and mothers' friendships, xvii;

and Simmel, 98

Folsom, Joseph, 25 , 30

Forced-choice questions, 69

"Frame changing," 126 -27, 132

France: courtship in, 196 n.38;

family in, 19

Frequency of contact, of closest friends, 89 -91

Friendship: modernization of, 1 , 3 -4, 17 -32 passim, 98 -99, 119 -20, 154 -58;

sentimentalized, 20 -21;

with spouses, xix , xx , 3 , 33 , 53 , 79 , 108 , 168 -69. See also Men's friendships; Women's friendships

Functionalism, 2

Furstenberg, Frank, 18

Future of Marriage (Bernard), 133